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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2006, 3:22 PM CDT for Dodge County, Ozaukee County, Washington County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2006, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2006, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dodge County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Washington County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 2, 2:46 PM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:46 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 246 PM CDT WED AUG 2 2006 .DISCUSSION...FORECAST FOCUS IS ON CONVECTION THIS EVENING...THEN ON QUIET AND SEASONAL WEATHER THROUGH SATURDAY. MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH SYNOPTIC SITUATION THROUGH 84 HOURS. CDFNT WILL SAG THROUGH SOUTHERN WISCONSIN THIS EVENING...INTO NORTHERN ILLINOIS TOWARD MIDNIGHT. WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW WRF TIMING WHICH IS BETWEEN NGM AND GFS. EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY LATE AFTERNOON AND IN EVENING HOURS. ISOLATED SEVERE IS POSSIBLE WITH WET MICROBURSTS. PRECIPITABLE WATER AROUND 2 INCHES. DRY RIDGE BUILDS INTO CWA BEHIND CDFNT LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. ALTHOUGH MODELS INDICATE ANOTHER SHORT WAVE ROTATING THROUGH CWA THURSDAY WITH RR QUAD 90KT H300 JET...COLUMN IS VERY DRY. WILL GO WITH ALL MODELS AND MOS GUIDANCE...AND KEEP THURSDAY DRY. RIDGE LINGERS OVER WISCONSIN THROUGH SATURDAY. COLUMN REMAINS DRY THROUGH THE PERIOD. SEASONAL TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED WITH COMFORTABLE DEW POINTS. && .MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 4:56 AM CDT, 10 hours 26 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:39 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 239 PM CDT WED AUG 2 2006 WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-022030- COLUMBIA-DANE-DODGE-FOND DU LAC-GREEN-GREEN LAKE-IOWA-JEFFERSON- KENOSHA-LAFAYETTE-MARQUETTE-MILWAUKEE-OZAUKEE-RACINE-ROCK-SAUK- SHEBOYGAN-WALWORTH-WASHINGTON-WAUKESHA- 239 PM CDT WED AUG 2 2006 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 673 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN UNTIL 11 PM.... AT 235 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM DARLINGTON...TO MADISON...TO BEAVER DAM...TO WEST BEND...AS WELL AS IN THE RIPON AREA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF FOND DU LAC...SHEYBOYGAN...AND PORT WASHINGTON BY 4 PM. EXPECT HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET THIS MORNING FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS. KRR/AFK
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:15 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 315 PM CDT WED AUG 2 2006 WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-022100- COLUMBIA-DANE-DODGE-FOND DU LAC-GREEN-GREEN LAKE-IOWA-JEFFERSON- KENOSHA-LAFAYETTE-MARQUETTE-MILWAUKEE-OZAUKEE-RACINE-ROCK-SAUK- SHEBOYGAN-WALWORTH-WASHINGTON-WAUKESHA- 315 PM CDT WED AUG 2 2006 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 673 CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN UNTIL 11 PM.... AT 310 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM DARLINGTON...TO EAST OF MADISON...TO WATERTOWN...TO WEST BEND...TO JUST SOUTH OF SHEBOYGAN. ANOTHER SHORT LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM SOUTH OF RIPON TO ELKHART LAKE. BOTH LINES WERE NEARLY STATIONARY IN POSITION WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. BY 4 PM...THE CITIES OF MONROE...TO FORT ATKINSON...TO OCONOMOWOC...TO MEQUON SHOULD BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS. EXPECT HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. RAINFALL TOTALS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR WILL PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER TO THE TOP OF CURBS IN URBAN AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET THIS MORNING FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS. KRR/AFK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Washington | 33 min |
| Aug 1, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee | 30 min |
| Aug 1, 7:57 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 55 min | |
| Aug 2, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 55 min | |
| Aug 2, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 4:27 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 93 min | |
| Aug 2, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 21 min |
| Aug 2, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 56 min | |
| Aug 2, 6:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 95 min | |
| Aug 2, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Racine, Waukesha | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.